"Anakin and Obi-Wan race to Kamino to fend off a massive Separatist attack on the planet's clone production facilities. With Ventress and Grievous leading an army of droids, Rex and Cody are joined on the frontline by Fives and Echo in a desperate defense of their home planet."_________________
"I believe toys resonate with us as humans, we can hold them them, it's tactile, real! They are totems for our extended beliefs and imaginations. A fetish for ideas that hold as much interest and passion as old religious relics for some. We display them in our homes. They show who we are. They are signals for similar thinking people. A way we connect with each other...and I guess thats why I do toys. That connection." -Ashley Wood

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I hope this "Old timer clone" doesn't ruin the Null story line......_________________-Bring on your thousands, one at a time or all in a rush. I don't give a damn. None shall pass.
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I hop it holds up under all this pressure..._________________
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Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 7:52 am

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Darth SkuldrenModerator

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Lucky for me, I haven't watched any of the season 3 previews so I've got minimal spoilers and pressure _________________
"I believe toys resonate with us as humans, we can hold them them, it's tactile, real! They are totems for our extended beliefs and imaginations. A fetish for ideas that hold as much interest and passion as old religious relics for some. We display them in our homes. They show who we are. They are signals for similar thinking people. A way we connect with each other...and I guess thats why I do toys. That connection." -Ashley Wood

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:54 pm

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ReepicheepMaster

Joined: 05 Feb 2008Posts: 7121Location: Sailing into the unknown

Ha, I've seen most of them. _________________
Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.

Much better than the previous one. Better pacing and all that. The battle looked quite cool as well. Although as much as I loved lightsaber duel, some of the fun is lost because I knew that Grievous and Ventress wouldn't be dying. No surprises. And might I say that Anakin's remark about how he was going to let the clones execute Ventress was awesome. Too bad he didn't just do it instead of talking about it.

I really loved the characters in this episode, but the whole plot didn't make sense... Why the heck would you learn anything by looking at DNA? All the Separatists would need to do is extract some DNA from a clone they've killed. Why go through all that trouble of invading Tipoca City? I guess that's Grievous' fault for not having a sense of biology. And we have Obi-Wan facing Grievous... AGAIN! And we have Anakin facing Asajj... AGAIN! Get some new blood flowing, Filoni! Hopefully Savage Oppress will bring some unique twists when he comes into play.

But onto the clones... I really thought that Rex was brought back in a good way, seeing as he barely did anything in Season 2. And I really felt sad when 99 was killed, even though I saw it coming.

I'm gonna have to give this one a 7.5/10: great character building, hardly any stiff dialogue, but extremely faulty logic on the CIS's part brings down the score.

Looking forward to the rest of the episodes!

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:21 am

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Darth SkuldrenModerator

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I also felt this one was much better than Clone Cadets, but it was also very reliant on Clone Cadets as well. Together, the two episodes become more than what they would be apart. Clone 99's story played out well, the visuals were great, the space battles just keep getting more and more awesome visually, and the action/story/pacing of this episode had a very nice balance.

As for the plot, I really didn't give it too much thought. I guess going after Fett's DNA was a little lame, but then again, the CIS was also going to destroy the cloning facilities on Kamino, so regardless of Fett's DNA, the loss of the cloning facilities would have been sufficient to hurt the Republic's war effort.

Now I rather liked Ventress' fight scenes because it's been a little while since we've seen her in action, and I especially enjoyed her little dialog with Grievous. Grievous on the other hand was a little lame. The more I see of him, the less I like him and the less his character makes since. We keep seeing him run away and being the stereotypical cowardly badguy whose all talk. I'd like to either see some sort of proof of why he's so deadly to Jedi, or I'd like to see him pull off some really sneaky, strategically brilliant military victory.

On another note, I thought the squid ships worked out really well. They looked cool in action. I thought they might be lame when they showed them in the water, but when they were drilling into the buildings and lashing with their tentacles it was pretty cool._________________
"I believe toys resonate with us as humans, we can hold them them, it's tactile, real! They are totems for our extended beliefs and imaginations. A fetish for ideas that hold as much interest and passion as old religious relics for some. We display them in our homes. They show who we are. They are signals for similar thinking people. A way we connect with each other...and I guess thats why I do toys. That connection." -Ashley Wood

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:49 pm

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ReepicheepMaster

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Wow. This episode handled the amount of action really, much better than Landing At Point Rain. I loved hearing the dialouge between Grievous and Ventress and how Grievous got inventive duringthe fight. However, like Skuldren said, it would be nice to see Grievous actually kill some Jedi (horrible as that may sound ) than keep fighting Kenobi to no avail._________________
Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.

This gave me mixed feelings. On the one hand, I liked how they did the invasion, it's quite inventive (as far as I'm aware of, having not read a lot of the CW era books) and the beginning of the story with the clones, when the two met 99 and filled him in on the story. It was a good idea to have the viewer learn the fate of the other clone at the same time as 99. On the other, I didn't like the duels, have never liked the duels. They just look too jumpy and unreal to me. Bring back the flowing combat I remember from the movies, I say! And the end felt a little too 'Disney' for my taste. Of course, it's hard to know what happened because I was babysitting a screaming baby at the time, but still.

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 3:17 pm

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ReepicheepMaster

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Yeah the duels in TCW have never satisfied me either. _________________
Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.

I don't really get what you just said, but why not? _________________
Where sky and water meet,
Where the waves grow sweet,
Doubt not, Reepicheep,
To find all you seek,
There is the utter east.

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:40 pm

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Old Master BenAdministrator

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To explain the Greedo drink, I use Wookieepedia's article on Wuher, the bartender of the Mos Eisley Cantina:

"On the fateful day that Luke Skywalker met Han Solo a 0 BBY, he had served Luke a glass of water. The fight between Doctor Cornelius Evazan, Ponda Baba, Luke Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi happened in front of his eyes. He also served the bounty hunter Greedo, and eventually witnessed Han Solo killing Greedo on that very same day. Before these events, Wuher had been working below the cantina on Jabba's perfect drink. Wuher knew he had almost perfected the beverage, but it was slightly lacking. Relying on his exceptional sense of smell, he realized the pheromones Greedo exuded were the final flavor the drink required. Employing his newly found droid C2-R4, he obtained Greedo's corpse and had C2-R4 brew Greedo into the liqueur. Upon tasting, Wuher believed he had finally created Jabba's perfect drink and at the same time, discovered a new-found sense of appreciation for droids."